Hi all,
I finally got myself a unbranded/sim lock free HTC Desire and the first thing i tried to do was to install some extra apps.
So i install an application called AppManager and it was reporting that the device had 145MB free out of 147MG possible .
Up to this moment everything was okay, and then i started to install some other applications, and since some of them didn't made my happy i just uninstalled them.
This procedure was been done maybe for a half-dozen applications, and at the end i only left the AppManager installed. However now the device reports 101MG free out of 147MG possible. I have restarted the device some times, and this value maintains the same..so i wonder where all the memory went? Is there some sort of bug in the memory management or in the uninstall procedure of applications within HTC Desire / Android 2.1 OS?
If there's any extra info i can provide, feel free to ask for it.
Thanks for your time,
Bruno
Have you tried clearing the internet and mail cache, these can soak up several Mb
adesonic said:
Have you tried clearing the internet and mail cache, these can soak up several Mb
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Hi adesonic,
I have only the gmail account setup (and this email account it's an empty one) and i didn't used internet so far.
By installing and uninstalling over and over applications the memory keeps droping until i see the low storage warning message. The way to fix it is to do a factory reset, but it seems to me that something is very wrong with the device/os.
Thanks,
Bruno
that's a known issue mate, i am having it too and many others i think.
i dunno if this is the reason but what's the process of uninstallation ???? maybe the .apk file is left somewhere when we download it and still take space after uninstall
I have the EXACT same problem on my HTC Desire and it is driving me nuts. And to make things worse I have trouble finding other people with the same problem.
Has anyone else experienced this problem and perhaps found a solution? Im going crazy having to do a factory reset to clear up memory from apps I have already uninstalled (I have turned down cache for my browser and my emails cache is very small too.)
I'll wipe my desire in a few minutes. I've got only 8mb left now, and I really deleted all the stuff I didn't really need... Thinking about getting a bigger MicroSD card & doing A2SD until HTC leaks sense for 2.2. I'll report back after reinstalling all my apps
i've got 3MB left
tommo123 said:
i've got 3MB left
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Get Estrongs file explorer and prune your download and downloads folders.
I guess the issue is not having the capacity of microsd card shrinking, but the internal memory being shrinked after several installs/uninstalls. It also drives me mad on my Desire.
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I assume you were using the Market app to install apps. This has a cache that gets pretty big. I've gotten it up to 10mb before. You can go into Applications and choose the market app and clear cache. I've had this issue and the only way I've sorted it was to get the apps I wanted, tested some others, come to some conclusion what I really wanted and then do a fresh restore and only install the apps I wanted.
Something i did not realized before but after reading this thread, i know realized that after 7 days of using my Desire, i only have 43MB left
And to think i was telling myself i can take my time and test as many application as possible cos i can always uninstall those i don't like. Looks like there is an after effect
Is this problem only on rooted desire or?
if you know if this will be fixed with v2.2?
No it's affecting non rooted too.
I did a Factory Reset a while ago. I then had 41MB free, after reset and installing the same apps again i had about 94MB free. All this after trying out a lot of apps.
Now it´s the same again, So a reset will free a lot of memory.
Does anyone know of an app that will back up my e-mail accounts settings? That was the only part that had to be reconfigured after the reset. WiFi, contacts and app settings are a breeze but the e-mail settings has to be done manually.
yes but factory reset delete all settings..or? isnt this annoying?
Not at all, if you've selected Menu/Settings/Privacy (Iguess, my phone is in Swerdish)
That will back up almost everything.
Not your Own Theme settings however.
i hope that this will be fixed with v2.2. Becouse i want buy this phone, but i will think twice. Problems with memory, vibrating, multitouch, and so on..
-Hell No! (Sorry )
This is an awsome phone, I've had no problems with mine.
Yes there is a shortage of memory, but you'll find that in other phones too and it will be taken care of somewhat in 2.2. The very few shortcomings are out weighted by its stellar performance in other ways. The multitasking in the Desire is seriously good. I often use 3-4 apps simultaneously and it doesnt even lag or slow down. Cardiotrainer, Music and c:geo is working about an hour together everyday and when the phone rings or I get an message/mail I don't have to exit the running apps - try that on an iPhone
My advice - Buy it and do it now.
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No it's affecting non rooted too.
I did a Factory Reset a while ago. I then had 41MB free, after reset and installing the same apps again i had about 94MB free. All this after trying out a lot of apps.
Now it´s the same again, So a reset will free a lot of memory.
Does anyone know of an app that will back up my e-mail accounts settings? That was the only part that had to be reconfigured after the reset. WiFi, contacts and app settings are a breeze but the e-mail settings has to be done manually.
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Sorry i have to ask but when you say setting up WiFi, contacts and apps is a breeze....do you mean restoring from the back up? Now if i would to hard reset, how do i restore my data from the memory card assuming i don't want to sync my contacts & calendar. What about general phone settings?
Well, all WiFi connections I had set up before - they just worked again.
All apps will be wiped, but they will be on your Downloaded page in Market. So its just a matter of installing them again.
All apps that had files and settings on memory card - recognized this and all was back to normal.
I use Google Calendar and that syncs back when setting up your Google account again.
Contacts I sync with Outlook, but if you have them in your Google Gmail account as contacts I suppose they just sync back.
The only thing I really had to do all over was setting up my e-mail accounts. The rest just fell in place.
Only thing I lost was my history in CardioTrainer, because I forgot to "Backup to SD card".
So take a peek in your apps if there is an option to backup to SD card and when the app is installed after the reset you can restore from your card again.
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Well, all WiFi connections I had set up before - they just worked again.
All apps will be wiped, but they will be on your Downloaded page in Market. So its just a matter of installing them again.
All apps that had files and settings on memory card - recognized this and all was back to normal.
I use Google Calendar and that syncs back when setting up your Google account again.
Contacts I sync with Outlook, but if you have them in your Google Gmail account as contacts I suppose they just sync back.
The only thing I really had to do all over was setting up my e-mail accounts. The rest just fell in place.
Only thing I lost was my history in CardioTrainer, because I forgot to "Backup to SD card".
So take a peek in your apps if there is an option to backup to SD card and when the app is installed after the reset you can restore from your card again.
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Thanks for the info. Will come in handy looking at my memory already now left with 25MB. It's going to be too soon before i have to hard reset
I think it would be best way to ask 2 questions in a thread. So here I go,
I bought my WF S 2 days ago, so far everything is good but noticed that there is a huge 3g traffic on my phone:
1-) Calendar Storage app is sucked around 17 mb in 1.5 days, I have Facebook, Google and Twitter accounts synched in the phone. My calendars are damn empty, not single thing, it only shows birthdays of the people on my Facebook, and that's it. But this little damn thing how come uses 17 mb of internet ? There is no way to set it up to sync only one time a day, only chance is setting it sync off. Is there a solution for this problem?
2-) I followed a method that I change default storage of my phone to SD card instead of phone internal memory with Android sdk, so now programs directly gets installed to SD card, and I can move them to SD card with App2SD app, but somehow, there is only 30 mb of internal memory left on my phone. I tried deleting caches and other stuff but still don't know what is sucking up this much memory on my phone. Is there a solution for that? I don't have many apps installed (only around 15 maybe) and no games at all.
Device is S-On and non rooted, so I can't follow any suggestions requiring those two things.
You would save more memory if you don't sync Facebook etc to the phone.
If you root the phone you'll be able to delete some fixed apps and save even more memory.
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Ok so as we all know this is the folder that gives us the low on storage message when we get under 15mb of space left. But this folders data numbers are going crazy on me. For instance I moved a few bigger apps (like google earth and google plus) to the sd card and had about 20mb left, but after using the phone for 2 days straight I checked and only had about 1.5mb left. Now to lose 18mb to cache is kinda crazy but after restarting the phone the number jumped back up to about 16mb free. Seems this problem keeps happening to me in Ginerbread only and I am getting tired of keep getting that low on space message.
I dont think any one has found a fix for it other than using apps such as link2sd and notenoughspace. I use the link2sd app my self, it moves the apk, dalvik, and lib files to a sd card extension.
possible fix
You should check out jermaine151's Stock+ version 2.1. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1260994. I can't personally vouch for it as he just released it and it's a little late to start reinstalling everything, but it looks promising.
So I got a bizarre notification today it says I am running out of room on internal storage? Specifically the root, not the SD, or external SD. I am not sure how that's possible or how to free up space. The only thing I can think of is I get lots of SMS/MMS and have 5 email accounts which are pretty active and lots of mail with attachments. Is this stuff stored on the root or SD card? Any other ideas on how to free up space would be greatly appreciated!
Not sure it makes a difference but I am running Blazer 4.0 with Gunslinger.
do you have a lot of apps if so consider moving them to sdcard you can also try to clear cache and data on some of your apps maybe the mail one since you said your email is pretty active other then that im not sure maybe somebody with more knowledge can help
Read this! http://bit.ly/AacW1j One thing that helped me to is that I had a recent Titanium backup (done automatically every night) and on applications that seemed to have 'lost' all my settings like Dolphin browser and Firefox, I simply restored that applicatons 'data' via Titanium. I litterally freed up 1.2 GB of space!!
Initially, thank you for being here. I participate in other forums, but none on cell phones.
This is the first.
I did search on 'internal memory' before post this new thread.
HTC DESIRE HD A9191
Original setup:
Android 2.3.5
HTC Sense version: 3.0
Non rooted
The problem:
My cell phone almost exists to run Whatsapp (it currently uses 210 Mb of internal memory).
Since there is no way to export the data from Whatsapp to the SD card, I am deleting messages. It was 222Mb, reached more than 225Mb and I removed other applications.
Over time, even though I uninstalling some applications (Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Instagram ...) and deleting messages (as I said, today it has 210Mb) the internal memory only reduces. Now I have less than 512 kb.
I honestly do not know what else to do. In a few days I will only have Whatsapp and the applications that Android does not allow to delete (without the root user).
Someone has had experience with this phone and knows what can be done besides:
1. Root
2. Uninstall programs that come in the mobile and are not useful
3. Install new Android 6
This cell phone is a great cell phone. Long lifespan (I have it for many years) and few defects (the audio has stopped to work - I need to use the speakerphone every time I call someone).
Is there any place I can access and delete temporary files etc?
Suggestions to solve are welcome.
I'd like to post a few images (printscreen) of the mobile phone internal memory (as a new user I can not post links,sorry):
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I am afraid to root it and lose something during the process. And if it stop to work I do not have another mobile phone to use.
Thank you!
I have just deleted 2,000 messages from Whatsapp and after reboot it went to 208 Mb.
After a few seconds it went to 211 Mb and to 210 Mb again.
The MONSTER is growing.
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